From: "Ball, Donald A Jr (Library)" <donald.ball@...>
Date: 2007-06-23T04:24:24+09:00
Subject: Re: assign greater of two ints?

> Is there a more concise way to write this?
> 
> a = 5
> b = "test123"
> if a < b.length
>   a = b.length
> end
> 
> --or--
> 
> a = b.length if a < b.length

a = [a, b.length].max

- donald